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CURRENT PROJECTS
CAREER: Scaled-Up Manufacturing of Nanostructured Refractory Ceramics for High-Temperature Applications

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  National Science Foundation
         Award Period:  April 15, 2007 – April 30, 2012
STTR Phase II: Low-Cost Nanoparticles for Enhanced Heat Transfer

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
         Award Period:  August 12, 2008 – August 11, 2010
Conference Support to Enable Participation of Hispanic Students in Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) 2009 Annual Meeting; Washington, DC; October 28-31, 2009

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  National Science Foundation
         Award Period:  August 10, 2008 – March 9, 2010
SELECTED PREVIOUS AWARDS

CIAM: A Novel Synthesis and Sintering Process for Nanostructured Oxide and Carbide Ceramic Composites

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support: National Science Foundation
         Award Period:  August 1, 2005 - July 31, 2009
SBIR Phase I: Novel Processing of Mesoporous Materials for Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
         Award Period:  January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2009
Processing of Nanostructured Borides for Multifunctional Applications

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
         Award Period:  July 20, 2008 - July 19, 2009

Amorphous Metal and Amorphous-Metal/Ceramic-Nanoparticle Composite Samples Synthesized with Spark-Plasma Sintering

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
         Award Period:  January 4, 2005 – May 30, 2008
CCLI: Development of Project Based Introduction to Materials

         Project Responsibility:  Co-PI (Dr. Stacy Gleixner – PI from SJSU)
         Source of Support:  National Science Foundation
         Award Period:  May 1, 2004 – April 30, 2008
STTR Phase I: Low-Cost Magnetic Nanoparticles for Two-Phase Microfluidics

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  Advanced Materials and Devices, Inc.
         Award Period:  June 1, 2006 – January 31, 2008
Synthesis of Nanostructured LaB6 Powders

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
         Award Period:  July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007
Synthesis and Sintering of LSO Powders Into High Optical Quality Parts

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support: National Securities Technologies, LLC
         Award Period:  May 12, 2005 – September 30, 2006
Sintered Optical Materials for Shock Physics

         Project Responsibility:  Principal Investigator
         Source of Support:  National Securities Technologies, LLC
         Award Period:  November 6, 2006 – August 31, 2007
Development of a Minor in Nanotechnology

         Project Responsibility:  Co-PI (Dr. Jeffrey LaCombe – PI from UNR)
         Source of Support:  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
         Award Period:  October 1, 2002 – September 30, 2003